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Visiting The Jewish
Cemetery in Leckava
by
Aleksandrs Feigmanis

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The Leckava Cemetery is located 200
meters to the left from the Mazeikiai
-Leckava road, about 200 meters before the sign announcing the name of the town
of Leckava.
These are the names I found in the Jewish Cemetery in Leckava, Lithuania. While most of the names were styled in the traditional fashion, giving the deceased's first name, followed by son or daughter of, and then the father's name, there were a few surnames including: Aronstamm, Fisher, Segal, and Rabinovitz.
| Abba BenTzion ben Yehudah, died 1896 | Moshe ben Aryeh, died 1898 |
| Aharon ben Menachem, died 1894 | Moshe ben Yitzhak, died 1880 |
| Aharon ben Moshe, died 1886 | Moshe Eliezer, died 1890 |
| Aharon ben Yakov, died 1878 | Mordechai ben Yehose, died 1911 |
| Aharon ben Yoel, died 1880 | Natan ben Hillel Tzvi, died 1870 |
| Aryeh ben Meir, died 1880 | Nechemia ben Dov, died 1869 |
| Aryeh Leib ben Tzvi, died 1921 | Nisen ben Gabriel, died 1898 |
| Avram ben Tzvi Lurye, died 1921 | Pera bat Tzvi, died 1890 |
| Avraham ben Moseh HaCohen, died 1903 | Pesach BenTzion ben Avraham, died 1900 |
| Avraham Meir ben Azriel, died 1895 | Pese bat Moseh HaCohen, died 1893 |
| Avraham ben Aharon, died 1930 | Pese bat Yehudah Leib, died 1900 |
| Avraham ben David, died 1881 | Pese Maryashe bat Mordechai, died 1881 |
| Baruch ben Mordechai, died 1880 | Rachel bat Aharon |
| Baruch Yehuda Leib ben Shlomo Itkes, died 1922 | Rachel bat Chaim Moshe, died 1878 |
| Base (?) bat Yosef, died 1860 | Rachel bat Yehudah HaCohen |
| Bashe bat Yitzhak HaLevi, died 1896 | Rachel bat Shrago |
| Batsheva bat Aharon, died 1898 | Rachel Fruma bat Zalman, died 1900 |
| Batsheva bat Ben Tzion, died 1908 | Rachel Malka bat Avraham, died 1888 |
| Beila bat Eliazar Katz | Rada bat Yehudah Leib |
| Beila bat Yehudah, died 1900 | Rebecca bat Avraham, died 1850 |
| Blume bat Menachem, died 1876 | Rebecca bat Mordechai, died 1875 |
| Braine Gietel bat Dov, died 1880 | Roza bat Shmuel, died 1892 |
| Bunim ben Chaim // spouse Sheva bat Tzvi, died 1920 | Rufa bat Moshe, died 1905 |
| Chaim ben Aryeh, died 1926 | Sara bat Avraham, died 1865 |
| Chaim ben Dov, died 1880 | Sara bat Baruch Segal, died 1907 |
| David ben Dov, died 1909 | Shabtai ben Yitzhal, died 1906 |
| David ben Eliezer, died 1900 | Shalom (?) ben Yitzhal, died 1898 |
| David ben Menachem Mendel, died 1902 | Sheina Beila bat Yehudah Leib, died 1887 |
| Devorah bat David, died 1910 (?) | Sheina Rachek bat Menachem, died 1897 |
| Daniel ben Naftali, died 1908 | Shifra bat Aharon, died 1876 |
| Dov ben Avraham, died 1901 | Shlomo Zalman ben Abba BenTzion, died 1891 |
| Efraim ben Yehudah Leib HaCohen, died 1902 | Shlomo ben Elia HaCohen, died 1905 |
| Eliezer ben Yehudah, died 1907 | Shmuel ben Menachem, died 1912 |
| Ester bat Mordechai, died 1900 | Simcha bat Yitzhak Halevi |
| Ester bat Yakov, died 1880 | Simon ben Pesach, died 1902 |
| Ete bat Sholom, died 1904 | Tamar bat Yehudah Leib, died 1906 |
| Feiga Beila bat Chaim Eliezer, died 1906 | Teme bat Aharon, died 1869 |
| Feiga Leah bat Yitzhak Chaim, died 1866 | Tsipora bat Eliezer, died 1869 |
| Freida bat Yehudah Leib, died 1907 | Tsipora bat Yehudah HaCohen, died 1893 |
| Freide Rabinovitz bat Yehudah Leib, died 1929 | Tsipora Miriam bat Yehudah, died 1900 |
| Gese Haya bat Yitzhak HaLevi, died 1896 | Tzerne Haya bat Shlomo, died 1908 |
| Gite bat Osher, died 1877 | Tzira bat Aharon, died 1891 |
| Gite bat Yehoshua Zelik, died 1882 | Tzira bat Tzvi, died 1884 |
| Gitel bat Ariel, died 1912 | Tzvi ben Avraham, died 1909 |
| Gitel bat Mordechai, died 1908 | Tzvi ben Chaim Moshe, died 1906 |
| Golda Leah bat Yekutiel HaLevi, died 1896 | Tzvi ben Eliezer, died 1895 |
| Hana bat Tzvi, died 1894 | Tzvi ben Menachem, died 1843 |
| Hase bat Yosef HaLevi, died 1909 | Tzvi ben Yehiel, died 1895 |
| Hase Sara bat Reuvain, died 1880 | Tzvi ben Betzalel/ spouse Miriam Base, died 1900 |
| Haya bat Avraham HaCohen, died 1903 | Tzvi ben Yose, died 1904 |
| Haya Rocel bat Nochum Tzvi, died 1919 | Tzvi ben Yehiel, died 1876 |
| Haya Sheina bat Eliazar, died 1902 | Verena bat Yehudah, died 1868 |
| Haya Zisel bat Tzvi, died 1902 | Yehudah HaCohen ben Eliezer Aronstamm, died 1910 |
| Haya Fruma bat Yehudah Leib from Siauliai district, died 1888 | Yakov ben Baruch, died 1868 |
| Haya Rivka bat Dov Katz, died 1885 | Yakov ben Yisroel HaLevi, died 1908 |
| Haya Rochel bat Yehose, died 1894 | Yakov ben Yosef, died 1893 |
| Haya Terze bat Nochum | Yakov ben Yosef Eliahu Zeligman, died 1929 |
| Hene bat Mordechai HaLevi Fisher, died 1924 | Yakov David ben Aryeh, died 1912 |
| Hene Leah bat Yosef, died 1930 | Yehose Zelig ben Chaim, died 1883 |
| Hode bat Aryeh, died 1902 | Yakov ben Tzvi, died 1870 |
| Isahar Betzalel ben Mordechai Aron, died 1896 | Yakov ben Aharon, died 1886 |
| Inte bat Eliahu | Yehose Zelig ben Chaim Moshe, died 1884 |
| Inte (?) bat Yudel, died 1884 | Yehudah ben Tzvi HaLevi, died 1913 |
| Ite bat Hakliel (?), died 1906 | Yehudah ben Yakov, died 1876 |
| Jone (?) ben Mordechai, died 1840 | Yehudah Leib ben Eliyahu, died 1889 |
| Lea Maryashe bat Mordechai, died 1875 | Yehudah Leib ben Shmuel, died 1892 |
| Leah Beila bat Shamaria | Yitzhak ben Zalman HaLevi, died 1848 |
| Leib ben Yov, died 1884 | Yitzhak ben Zalman HaLevi, died 1895 |
| Malke Zelde bat Shmuel, died 1922 | Yitzhak Aizik ben Yehudah, died 1896 |
| Mane David ben Tzvi, died 1847 | Yitzhak Chaim ben Avraham Aba, died 1892 |
| Margaliot bat Shlomo | Yitzhak Sholom ben Chaim, died 1889 |
| Menachem ben Avraham, died 11904 | Yitzhak Yehudah ben Natan Dov, died 1938 |
| Menachem Gershon ben Zev, died 1906 | Yocheved bat Betzalel, died 1886 |
| Menachem Mones ben Abba, died 1865 | Yosef Gedaliah Shuv |
| Menucha bat Shalom | Yudel bat Dov (?), died 1854 |
| Miriam bat Betzalel, died 1900 | Zalman Tzvi be Shmuel, died 1888 |
| Miriam bat Chaim Eliezer, died 1871 | Zev ben Yonah, died 1844 |
| Miriam bat Eliazar, died 1888 | Zlata bat Sholom, died 1867 |
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Dr. Aleksandrs Feigmanis {Grestes 2-12, Riga, LV-1021, Latvia; tel. (371) 7246-893; e-mail aleksgen@mailcity.com} is a Jewish genealogical researcher who is also a contributing editor to AVOTAYNU. He is available to do archival research, to guide tours, to translate (Russian, Latvian, German, Yiddish), and to photograph and do videos of towns and cemeteries. |